Andre Hardy experiment over

Andre Hardy is not going to be the next Antonio Gates, at least not for the Raiders. The Raiders waived the tight end on Monday, a month after they signed the basketball player out of Cal State Fullerton. The 6-foot-5, 250-pound Hardy averaged 8.0 points and 6.7 rebounds the past two seasons for the Titans, but didn’t play any football in college.

General manager Reggie McKenzie liked Hardy’s hands, but said that Hardy had a minor injury after the Raiders signed him. He was on the sideline for most of last weekend’s rookie mini-camp.

The Raiders also cut quarterback Rhett Bomar on Monday. As he walked away, Rhett said, “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.” No, no he didn’t say that. Just wanted to make first-ever “Gone with the Wind’ reference in a football blog.

Earlier in the day, Oakland signed K/P Eddy Carmona, DE Wayne Dorsey, TE Kyle Efaw, T Kevin Haslam, CB LeQuan Lewis, FB TréShawn Robinson and WR Travionte Session. They had all tried out last weekend. Efaw is a little interesting and we’ll blog about him later.